Even if you're not interested in architecture and you don't usually go around a city you're not familiar with just looking at the buildings surrounding you, one of the first things you notice walking around Bucharest is the way different (and often abandoned) spaces and identities co-habit together, forming a strange and at times bizarre puzzle.
It's therefore easy to understand why architectural firms such as Studiobasar have been developing through a trans-disciplinary approach social dialogues to develop urban activism, stirring at the same time collective participation.
I've seen quite a few interesting places and buildings, but this house particularly struck my attention. Somebody explained me it is probably inhabited by Roma gypsies, but what I thought was really incredible, since it seemed a total reinvention of the strategies behind space division in a house, was the "open air wardrobe" on the first floor, a window with no glass through which you can see clothes neatly hanging.
My research trip to Romania was made possible through a journalistic grant from the Institutul Cultural Român (ICR - Romanian Cultural Institute), Bucharest.
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